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HMRC ‘particularly feeble’ over failure to close loophole

[responsivevoice_button] The Government chose not to close a tax loophole which

The other energy scandal – power giants use loophole to cut their own tax bills

[responsivevoice_button] As people buckle under the pressure of soaring energy bills,

Serco and pathology: the cost of profit

[responsivevoice_button] Serco was pleased to announce this month that GSTS Pathology

The Severn Trent takeover – corporate profiteering, tax avoidance and Britain’s water supply

[responsivevoice_button] Severn Trent is the latest water company to be targeted

‘A ridiculous return’: South West Water and the cost of water

[responsivevoice_button] Devon resident Stan Beale considers the excessive prices charged by

Unhealthy influence: The rise of the NHS Partners Network

[responsivevoice_button] The transformation of a small private healthcare trade association into

One in ten claimants have benefits cut on mandatory workfare scheme

[responsivevoice_button] CORRECTION 16 March 2013: This article was first published under

Leaking away: The financial costs of water privatisation

[responsivevoice_button] As water bills rise again, an investigation by Corporate Watch

Capita gets bigger slice of UK immigration cake, chokes on first bites

[responsivevoice_button] Thousands of migrants received threatening text messages over the Christmas

The Workfare Before Christmas

[responsivevoice_button] As the legality of the government’s ‘workfare’ schemes is again

Transforming Pathology, the Serco way

[responsivevoice_button] The privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has

Using Benefits to Blackmail

[responsivevoice_button] Gillian Wilkes, from the West Midlands, was recently made redundant

G4S dumps UPM, chooses new partners to house asylum seekers

[responsivevoice_button] The short-lived affair between G4S and United Property Management (UPM)

‘I was so frozen by stress after having my benefits stopped’

[responsivevoice_button] Karen Stromberg from the London Coalition Against Poverty describes the

Revealed: the punishing reality of the coalition’s welfare reforms

[responsivevoice_button] Sanctioning – stopping someone’s benefits after a perceived infringement of